Minster for Environment John Gormley has announced that new tests will be carried on the site of the former Irish Steel works at Haulbowline.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has revealed further tests are to be carried out on an island in Cork harbour where a toxic waste dump was discovered two years ago.

NEARLY 1,000 people have signed petitions in the last 24 hours which were launched to pressure the Government into carrying out a baseline health study in a Cork harbour town blighted by cancer.